Hundreds of members of a progressive teachers’ union on Friday took an early leave from schools to demonstrate against the government’s move to revoke its legal status. Tension has been mounting between the Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union and the government since a Seoul court ruled on June 19 in favor of the government’s decision to outlaw the group because it violated the labor law that bars dismissed workers from joining unions.“It is very clear why the Park Geun-hye administratio

Talks of drastic reform of the existing system emerge as left-leaning education chiefs arrive

The majority of education superintendents in South Korea decided Wednesday to order full-time members of a banned teachers’ union to return to their teaching posts.The move came after the Education Ministry urged local education chiefs to comply with its decision to outlaw the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union. The KTU saw its legal status recently revoked for infringing on a labor law that prohibits dismissed teachers from joining trade unions. The ministry also urged them to carry o

Chadwick International in SongdoInternational School - Chadwick InternationalFor the second year in a row, Chadwick International proved itself to be the top international school in Korea.Chadwick International, the second campus of Chadwick School founded in California by Margaret Lee Chadwick, focuses on providing a wide range of education programs, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Since opening in 2010, the school has remained true to its purpose of assisting students vying to become the

The Education Ministry sent a warning Monday to members of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, saying they will be “sternly punished” if they choose to participate in antigovernment activities.The announcement made early in the day aggravated the ongoing feud between the government and the recently banned union. On Sunday, the KTU said it would not comply with the government’s decision to revoke its legal status, and vowed an “all-out struggle” against what it called unfair repressi

The Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union on Sunday said it will fight the court’s recent decision to renounce its legal status, as a years-long feud between the left-leaning union and government deepened.On Thursday, a Seoul court ruled that the controversial union is not a legitimate labor group because it violated the labor law that bans dismissed education workers from joining unions. Later in the day, the Education Ministry announced a series of follow-up measures which include withd

Children take a basic ballet class (top photo) and feed an artic fox (bottom photo) during the “Dream Big” program hosted by the Gwanak English Village in Seoul on Sunday. The English immersion institute is run by Herald Corporation. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald)

A Seoul court ruled Thursday against the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union in a lawsuit on its legal status, effectively allowing the government to deregister the controversial organization.The ruling was the latest event in a four-year feud between the KTU and the Labor Ministry, which has been accusing it of infringing the labor law. The ministry had ordered the KTU to revise its regulation allowing fired teachers to become members ― citing article 2 of the labor law, which bans dis

Kim Myung-soo, nominee for education minister, came under fire Tuesday for allegedly plagiarizing his student’s paper, in what has been the latest in a string of disputes stirred up by President Park Geun-hye’s Cabinet choices.The 66-year-old professor at Korea National University of Education published a paper in 2002 on how promoting young students to make their own decisions in the classroom would affect their school life. But according to a press release by Rep. Park Hong-keun of the New Pol